Rome Pt.1 #3

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Greco-Roman Civilization

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Rome absorbes ideas/culture from Greece such as Greek art, literature, philosophy, and scientific genius

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Virgil

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Roman poet who wrote Aeneid about Romes heroic beginning in hope of Rome to reunite

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Satirize

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Poets use of verse to make fun of Roman society

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Livy

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Roman historian who sought to rouse patriotic feeling and restore traditional Roman virtues by recalling Roman's heroic past

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Tacitus

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Roman historian who wrote bitterly about Augustus and sucessors ruining Roman liberty

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Pompeii

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A Roman city buried by volcanic eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. that had mosaics and frescos

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Mosaic

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A picture made from chips of colored stone or glass

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Pantheon

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Roman temple to all the Roman gods that had a rounded roof

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Engineering

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Apllication of science and mathematics to develop useful stuctures and machines

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Aqueducts

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Bridgelike stone structures that brought water from the hills into Roman cities

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Ptolemy

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Roman astronomer-mathematician who proposed the theory that the Earth was the center of the universe

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Galen

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Greek doctor who insisted on experiments to prove a conclusion and advanced medical science

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Pliny the Elder

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Roman scientist who compiled volumes on geography, zoology, bontany, and other topics, all pased on others works

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Civil Law

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Roman law that applied to citizens but during expansion of Rome the laws did not cover foreigners

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Law of Nations

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2nd Roman law that was made to apply all people under Roman rule including citizens and non citizens